This volume is to give officials involved in macroeconomic policy issues an opportunity to enhance their knowledge of the concepts and framework that are needed to design and implement macroeconomic and financial programs. The volume covers accounting and analysis for the real, external, fiscal, and monetary sectors, as well as the inerrelations among these sectors. The volume also contains a series of workshops on the methods of economic forecasting and formulation of a hypothetical adjustment program for a case-study country (Tunisia), based on actual data. This volume is the main teaching material used in the financial progamming courses offered in French by the IMF Institute.